Everyone is different, but since you mentioned it’s only your first month with PMR, I’m wondering if you may be tapering too quickly, and might need more time before dropping the dose. The one thing we all share with PMR is that in most cases, slow-slow-slow taper is best to minimize flares and help with quality of life, so know that it’s okay to slow the taper if you feel you need to. When reducing the dose, there’s usually going to be some residual pain and/or fatigue, but the hope is it will return to baseline within a few days, and if not it might help to go up again and wait for things to stabilize before trying again to taper. My mom is a retired nurse, and she told me they used to call prednisone “the happy pill,” because it quickly improved so many symptoms. But of course it’s not so happy if we’re on it for too long! The hope is to be on the lowest fox’s possible, if at all, while still being able to preserve quality of life. Wishing you all the best.